CS-Script Compiler Engines

The CS-Script allows hosting/executing the scripts by any of the three supported compilers.

• CodeDom
• Mono
• Roslyn

The CS-Script offers identical developer experience for all these three compilers, but the compilers themselves are not entirely identical.

• The initial CS-Script hosting model was based on CodeDom compilation, and support for Mono and Roslyn was added much later when these technologies became available.
• The CodeDom based API is not 100% aligned with the Mono and Roslyn native API.
• he native TAPI of all three compilers is extremely inconsistent that it was quite a challenge to define a common interface that can reconcile all the differences.

This challenge has been answered in the latest version, and the main hosting interface can be accessed using CSScript.Evaluator.

• It is the entry point for all three compilers, and this is the API that you should rely on in most cases.
• This common interface is referred through all the documentation as CSScript.Evaluator.

CSScript.Evaluator

CSScript.Evaluator exposes the scripting functionality, which is common for all supported compilers. The following table explains certain runtime differences between the compilers.